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What’s on tap: 

• Normandy remembers D-Day veterans

• Teen inventors make prosthetic for their friend

• America’s best-paid CEOs

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Today’s Big Story

Wrongly Deported Man Returns to Face Smuggling Charges

A man wrongly deported by the Trump administration has been brought back to the US to face criminal charges for alleged human smuggling.

• Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, violating a 2019 court order that protected him from deportation due to persecution fears. After the administration claimed it couldn't facilitate his return, a federal judge ordered the government to bring him back, and Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday that El Salvador agreed to return him following his indictment on domestic smuggling charges.

• The indictment alleges Garcia spent nearly a decade transporting illegal migrants already inside the US from Texas to interior locations, making more than 100 trips and moving thousands of people, including MS-13 gang members, according to sources familiar with the investigation. Federal authorities launched the criminal probe in April after they obtained a 2022 Tennessee traffic stop video where Garcia was found with eight passengers but released with only a warning.

• Garcia's attorney accused the government of "playing games" and said they "had the power to bring him back at any time." Garcia, who has lived in Maryland for 13 years with his US citizen wife and child, was sent to El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison despite his family and lawyers denying MS-13 allegations that the administration used to justify his deportation

Saturday’s Quick Hits

• Veterans gathered in Normandy on Friday for the 81st D-Day anniversary. Tens of thousands attended the commemorations, which included parachute jumps and ceremonies. The 1944 invasion deployed almost 160,000 Allied troops—73,000 American and 83,000 British-Canadian—against 50,000 German defenders using the largest armada in history. D-Day alone cost 4,414 Allied lives but proved pivotal in defeating Nazi Germany. (More)

• The US added 139,000 jobs in May, exceeding forecasts despite trade war uncertainty. The healthcare and restaurant sectors gained 62,000 and 30,000, respectively, but federal jobs were down 22,000 from Trump cuts, and factories lost 8,000. Wages rose 3.9% yearly. However, 625,000 people left the labor force, pulling the employment rate to 59.7%, the lowest since January 2022. (More)

• Indian PM Modi opened the world's highest railway single-arch bridge in Kashmir, standing 1,117 feet above the Chenab River—higher than the Eiffel Tower. The bridge provides Kashmir's first railway connection to India. Modi's visit was his first since April's India-Pakistan conflict, triggered by a tourist massacre. (More)

• Former Arkansas police chief Grant Hardin was recaptured Friday after nearly two weeks on the run. Tracking dogs led to his arrest near Moccasin Creek, 1.5 miles from the prison he escaped. Hardin, serving 30 years for murder and rape, escaped May 25 by impersonating a corrections officer. (More)

• A healthy 71-year-old Texas woman died from a brain-eating amoeba infection after repeatedly using RV tap water to clean her sinuses at a campsite. She developed severe neurologic symptoms, including seizures, and died within eight days. The CDC confirmed Naegleria fowleri in lab tests and warned against using non-distilled water for nasal irrigation. (More)

• Interpol arrested 20 people across Europe and the Americas in a 12-country operation targeting child sexual abuse material, led by Spanish police who identified the online messaging groups. Suspects included healthcare workers and teachers, with one allegedly paying Eastern European minors for images. Ten arrests occurred in Latin America, while 68 additional suspects were identified in ongoing investigations. (More)

Weekly Dose of Positive

• Furniture shop owner Saji Valasseril created a free swimming club in the Periyar River in Kerala, India, after 15 schoolchildren drowned, teaching over 10,000 people water safety through 16-lesson courses. (More)

• Three Texas teens invented a brain-controlled prosthetic leg for their friend Aiden, which won $50,000 at an international science fair. Their gadget reads brain signals with 98% accuracy. (More)

• Family-owned Lux Cleaners in California offers free outfit cleaning for unemployed people heading to job interviews, serving 5-10 customers weekly. (More)

• Designing Justice + Designing Spaces partners formerly incarcerated men at Formr with incarcerated women to design and build furniture, with 55% of profits supporting women's reentry through A New Way of Life. (More)

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